Virginia Baseball: ACC Baseball Championship Preview

Virginia (38-15, 17-13 ACC) is ready to start play within the 2022 ACC Baseball Championship this week at Truist Area in Charlotte. The Cavaliers are searching for their fifth ACC title in program historical past and first for the reason that 2011 season. Final 12 months, Virginia went 2-0 in pool play to advance to the semifinals earlier than shedding to Duke. UVA then went on to make an unbelievable run to the Faculty World Sequence regardless of being a No. 3 seed within the Columbia Regional. 

UVA is the No. 5 seed in Pool D within the 2022 ACC Baseball Championship and can face No. 9 seed Florida State on Wednesday at 3pm and No. 4 seed Notre Dame on Friday at 11am. The staff with the very best report within the pool will advance to the semifinals. If groups are tied on the finish of pool play, the upper seed will advance. In Pool D, Notre Dame holds the tiebreaker as the very best seed. 

The winner of Pool D will face the winner of Pool A (No. 1 Virginia Tech, No. 8 North Carolina, or No. 12 Clemson) within the single-elimination semifinals on Saturday at 1pm. The winner of that recreation will transfer on to the ACC Championship Recreation on Sunday at midday. 

See the total bracket and schedule for the 2022 ACC Baseball Championship right here:

This would be the first time UVA has performed both of those groups within the 2022 season. In 2021, Virginia misplaced two out of three video games towards Florida State in Tallahassee and was swept by Notre Dame in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers avenged the latter loss within the 2021 ACC Baseball Championship, beating Notre Dame 14-1 in pool play. 

Notre Dame went 33-13 total within the common season, together with a 16-11 mark in ACC play, good for a second-place end within the ACC Atlantic standings. The Preventing Irish swept Florida State, Clemson, and Wake Forest, however had been swept by Louisville and Duke. Notre Dame misplaced two out of three towards Miami and one recreation towards Virginia Tech (the opposite two video games in that sequence had been canceled), however gained two out of three video games in sequence towards Boston Faculty and Pittsburgh. 

Notre Dame is the very best fielding staff within the ACC with a fielding proportion of .981. The Preventing Irish have dedicated solely 32 errors all 12 months. Notre Dame can be second within the ACC in staff ERA (4.03), solely trailing Virginia, and sixth within the convention in staff batting common (.300). 

Florida State completed the common season 32-22 total and 15-15 within the ACC, notching a fourth-place end within the Atlantic. The Seminoles gained two out of three video games in sequence towards Wake Forest, NC State, Duke, Boston Faculty, and Miami, received swept by Notre Dame, Louisville, and North Carolina, and misplaced two out of three in sequence versus Georgia Tech and Clemson. 

The Seminoles picked up a significant sequence victory two weekends in the past, taking two out of three towards Miami. Nevertheless, FSU enters the ACC Match on a four-game shedding streak because the Seminoles adopted up that sequence win towards the Hurricanes with a loss to Florida after which received swept by North Carolina within the last weekend of the common season. 

The Cavaliers are on a mission to boost the ACC trophy on the finish of the week, however the stakes of this event transcend successful the ACC Championship. Virginia has skilled vastly completely different outcomes based mostly on the place its video games have taken place this season. UVA is 29-5 within the pleasant confines of Disharoon Park, however 7-10 in street video games. Virginia is true on the bubble of being one of many high 16 seeds within the NCAA Match and getting the best to host an NCAA regional in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers should ship a robust efficiency in Charlotte to have the ability to have dwelling discipline benefit to start their quest to return to the Faculty World Sequence. 

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